Review of last nights Alphaville Unplugged

[~jacoblindsay]

So my friend and I showed up in the middle of Agnes Poetry's set. They were okay. A new girl in the band. One thing that trouble me when I see Agnes Poetry play (which is about 5 times) is that without fail, they hardly play anything live. I understand that so much production and computers are involved but I think it would be cool if they expressed more of their talent other than just playing one hand and pressing one key every 10 seconds or so. On the few acoustic songs they did, they played beautiful piano, I just feel that it would have been a much better performance had they played more "live." On to Alphaville...

SETLIST:
1)new song [maybe called 'Without Explanation']
2)Carry Your Flag
3)Jerusalem
4)My Heart Belongs To You [?]
5)If The Audience Was Listening
6)Still Falls The Rain [new song]
7)Summer In Berlin
8)New Song
9)Jet Set
10)Monkey In The Moon
11)First Monday in the year 3000 [new song]
12)New
13)Forever Young
ENCORE
14)Say It Aint So Joe
15)Dance With Me

Definately not the set list that I would have chosen but what can ya do? Marian's voice sounded better than the last time they played in Salt Lake. Martin Lister's piano/keyboard skills were absolutely amazing. There was no tape involved which was very impressive. As a whole they sounded awesome. Their first song [new one] was superb as was If The Audience... I would give the overall concert an 8 out of 10. One of my biggest bones to pick with the band is their setlist. 4 times I have seen them and I have never heard anything off of Prostitute or The Breathtaking Blue. This was a big disappointment. Hello Romeos, The Impossible Dream, Faith, Apollo [take it back, they played half of apollo last year], Iron John, The Mysteries of Love, etc. What's the deal with that.

[~Mike Gjennestad]

I got the chance to go to the concert last night. I enjoyed it a lot. not too bad. Agnes Poetry was their usual selves, except the accoustic tracks they did were pretty good. nice change. That wasn't a new girl by the way, that was ranita. at least that is what they said on their mailing list they sent out before the show.

The ALphaville portion was great to say the least. I think the venue was a bit lacking for an accoustic show. That is twice now that alphaville has had to perform here in less than great conditions. I look forward to seeing alphaville perform in a nicer venue like abravanel hall or something. imagine marian singing accoustic there. that would be nice.

other than that it looked like marian was having a great time. it looked like he really enjoyed himself. looking forward to the next show.


mike

[~Mike Gjennestad]

oh before i forget, jacob what did you think of marian's first song, the accoustic version of big in japan?



hahahahaha





mike

[~jacoblindsay]

That was hilarious. Nice ice breaker. What's your opinion on Prostitute and Breathtaking Blue? Why dont they ever play those?

[~Mike Gjennestad]

he did play jerusalem last night. personally, prostitute is my favorite album of theirs. breathtaking blue is a close second. this is in contrast to most alphaville fans i have found though. prostitute has all kinds of different sounds to it. such a great album.

I too would DIE to hear a live version of iron john, or something. but hey don't know that i will see that day.


mike

[~Todd Durrant]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Mike Gjennestad
[B]oh before i forget, jacob what did you think of marian's first song, the accoustic version of big in japan?


That was awsome! It was the little "intro" that they played right after Marian said, "before we get started, there is something we have to get out of the way."

You can tell he never wants to perform that song live again.

-Todd

[~marco_spn]

Was this show recorded? Anyone know? Legal or illegal, hehe. :-)

-- Marco

[~Mike Gjennestad]

on the agnes poetry mailing list, it said this morning that it was recorded by marian for a possible release in the future. Don't know for sure though.



mike

[Avil]

This liveshow was recorded and will surely...99 % be released. [DVD]

[~Trent]

This is from the official Alphaville webpage:

22.04.01
exciting year ahead
the shape of things to come
america was great - we loved it! some impresssions will be online soon.
while tobi is back in hamburg marian and judith are still in salt lake city to edit the live recordings from the '99 shows for a possible dvd release.
this year is going to be extremely exciting as there are quite a few releases upcoming that might surprise you - and that is going to happen sooner, than you expect! more news as soon as they are finally confirmed - right here!
(This info and all official info for Alphaville can be found at www.alphaville.de)

:p


I'd also like to say hey there to you all...Came here from the Alphaville forum Avil put a little link there to look here so I read your posts on Alphaville and thought I would help you guys out here =)

[Avil]

Oh hi Trent. You found the way to this place too...

[~Trent]

Hey Avil Haha!! Yeah, You know me....I am everywhere...If there's Alphaville there...I am there! :D

[Avil]

Trent.How did you find this place then??
But I do like to see a familiar face here...

[~Trent]

Read me original post =) It tells the gruesome story of how I got here!! HeH!

[~Synapse]

Hopefully Marian is doing much better without his lame manager KP. That guy was a big time looser. I did business with him in Salt Lake City, UT. during the first Alphaville show in America (which BTW I also have great front-stage video footage of).

[Avil]

Oooh oh,pliiiis...

Marian!!!Not Marion...
And KP not PK...

Sorry just had to say that.

[~Trent]

From what I hear he is doing better with Judith...And that footage I would LOVE to get me hands on!!!

[Avil]

Which footage??

[~Synapse]

I'll have to check around my area to see what it would cost to get it converted to PAL. That's the format you'd want, correct? I filmed the master on Sony Digital and I know that it's going to be expensive to have it copied since not a lot of people use the Sony DVCam format. If you're interested though, I'll check into it.

[~Trent]

Yes, I would need the PAL format....But if it is too expensive and a problem..it is ok mate...Or I can offer to pay for shipping and handling or whatever

[Avil]

Hey hey,PAL format of WHAT???
*lost*

[~Trent]

You are NOT paying attention are you Avil????? HAHA!! You silly Nutter!!!!

[Avil]

No I don´t think so Trent...Sorry...*lol*